Edson Hilios
Engineering Lead at Airwallex
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolEdson Hilios is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-throughput, event-driven systems across payments, logistics, and real-time tracking. He has led teams to deliver end-to-end payment lifecycles and integrations with Visa/Amex, helping scale volumes to $100M monthly, and architected Track & Trace systems that process hundreds of millions of events daily with sub-20ms query latencies. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering (Scala, Kotlin, Kafka, Kubernetes, NoSQL) and people leadership, he blends deep technical ownership with UX sensibilities to keep products customer-focused. A pragmatic problem-solver, he has a background in industrial engineering and transport research and even contributed front-end UX fixes to a popular jQuery countdown plugin, showing attention to polish across the stack. Based in Haarlem, he thrives in scale-up environments where delivery pressure meets operational resilience.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of São PauloBachelor, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor, Industrial and Product Design at Universidade PaulistaMackenzie Presbyterian University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
testing9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
countdown6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hilios/jQuery.countdown
Jul 2011 - Dec 2016
The Final Countdown plugin for jQuery
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 78 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Edson primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the jQuery Countdown plugin. They addressed compatibility issues with date parsing in different browsers and refactored the plugin to store interval references, improving its stability. Further contributions included adding practical usage examples, like coupon and Groupon-style countdowns, and resolving a memory leak. They also implemented and tested the `strftime` functionality.
javascriptjquery-pluginjquerycountdown
hilios/hilios
Jan 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:57 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 8 years 11 months
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